Coleco and ColecoVision commercials from the 1970s & 1980s

A collection of Coleco and Colecovision adverts and commercials from the 1980s. During the 1970s and 1980's Coleco industries heavily advertised their first generation Telstar range and their second generation ColecoVision console and computer products. This marketing strategy include commercials around the world. Some of these adverts where by Coleco Industries directly however it wasn't unusual to see adverts by independent retailers too.
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[@philfrank5601]

10:14 "Is that legal?" 😂 Lori Loughlin saying this quote is priceless!

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

lol @ Aunt Becky using the Colecovision ADAM to trump up her daughter's college application

[@Gamevet]

"The power of the Adam Computer." They were right about that. It pretty much put Coleco into bankruptcy.

[@CrystalLaser]

3:38 Atari: “Excuse the module does WHAT” 😂

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

@8:32 dad is like: "Billy????- that kid's an idiot!!!!"

[@JCDIII]

I just added a new Coleco Adam commercial to my channel my wife was the kid in it 🤣😆🤣

[@Sinn0100]

I love it, even back then they were talking about the most powerful console ever. I started in 1986 with the Nes and Master System so I missed all of this. It's really interesting being able to enjoy them now all these years later. Further, I love seeing how far we have come in such a short span. We've gone from talking about how many screens a game has, to levels, digitized graphics, clear speech, thousands of polygons, millions of polygons, open worlds, procedural generation...and it's still going strong. Long may the gaming industry live. I'm still a gamer today that enjoys every genre, platform, and generation. For reference- After I finish this amazing video I'm heading to our bedroom to play Gears of War Tactics on our Xbox Series X the most powerful gaming console today (I had to say it). My fiancee is playing Horizon Zero Dawn on our PS5 *physical the second most powerful console out now (same here). There will never be a time in my life when I'm not a gamer.

[@MoonsideResident]

Well said. I started in the same era of gaming and couldn't agree more. I feel privileged having grew up during the gaming renaissance.

[@rbrtck]

Eh, I lost interest after the 1980s--didn't like the new games as much, and still have no interest except in the games of the "golden age". Just giving a different perspective, for what it's worth.

[@Sinn0100]

@@rbrtck Oh no worries man, I find your perspective to be genuine and even refreshing. I'll tell you what I miss growing up...being able to talk to another gamer about gaming without hyperbole or ad hominems. It's a lost art and I hope one day we can all get passed the my "X" is better than your "X." Which is what generally turns me away. For reference- I truly believe that is what has brought us as a group of people down. Video games for better or worse is what I call living art. It moves, it's vibrant, and can convey far more emotion than even film. Unfortunately, we gamers are always at each other's throats for soulless companies and until we stop acting like feckless idiots nothing will change. I'll tell you this...you will never see arthouse connoisseurs attack each other over Édouard Manet and Pablo Picasso's work. Love what you play and play what you love.

[@RetroGameNova]

Makes me wonder how many games came out for the Tellestar arcade system

[@johnrossi6212]

Love the old commercials. I don’t remember the Gemini.

[@AngryCalvin]

No but Atari does. LOL!

[@rkornilo]

Wow, thanks for the flashbacks!

[@mixedhairless]

👏🙏 Thanks for the memories….

[@Anamnesis]

I’m a Gen X baby who had a Colecovision back in 1983-1984 before getting an original NES about a year later. I was just a little kid who was gifted these things by my parents of course, but I’m pretty sure my dad chose the Coleco over the 2600 because of the Atari compatibility and all the modular expansion potential it had. I don’t think he ever bought any of the peripherals though (probably just too costly) and of course Nintendo changed the world in 1985 and Coleco became roadkill. I also had no idea Lori Loughlin did an advert for Coleco before anyone knew who she was, I don’t really remember seeing any television commercials for this stuff at all. 😂

[@jackson5116]

You Knew Yorkers got the NES before the rest of us in America did. I have to ask though, what was it like geowing up in NYC during the crack epidemic? We had it here, but not as bad as I heard NYC's was.

[@johnsmith1953x]

Coleco came out in jan 1982.

[@AllGamingStarred]

Had they simply ironed out the ADAM prior to launch, it would've murdered Atari.

[@AngryCalvin]

It’s painful enough that Colecovision came to an end early. Home Computers were what we were gaming on until the NES was in every household. The Adam would have been quite the juggernaut without the issues it had that still irritate collectors and customers who remember the nightmares to this day. Super Donkey Kong is one of the better ports out there. Probably the best computer port before Ocean put more out in the mid eighties. Adam handled arcade ports well. Had a ton of potential. A real tragedy Coleco messed up with this and had great success selling ugly dolls with a signature on their butts that nobody even has anymore.

[@ShengDanLaoRen]

I have some distant memory of actually playing Popeye in the arcade 😀

[@VulcanLogic]

Now let’s talk rustproofing, these Colecos will rust up on you like that. Shut up Gil, close the deal, close the deal!

[@claytonbouldin9381]

"I'm learnding!"

[@papifeo4625]

My childhood game system after my Atari 2600 ❤

[@jasonshoffner2803]

That’s Lori Loughlin at the 10:00 mark

[@Ikrananka]

Very nice compilation. Just curious where you source these from? BTW - you may want to edit the title, there's a spelling error.

[@TheRetroByte]

Will take a look, at the spelling, I'm so professional 🥴

[@RobbieAdamss]

Oh the days when a company could play other company games on their systems without massive lawsuits LOL

[@apjay]

For some reason after 08:25 (ie the Adam stuff) the soundtracks aren't for the commercial being shown

[@westronic]

True. As a War Games fan I had to look that one up on its own: 1984 War Games Adam Commercial

[@NorthWay_no]

Was the clip at 4m5s using a prototype with floppy drives?

[@CodeBleu724]

6:46 Is that Jaleel White (Urkel)?

[@targetrender9529]

Yup, that’s him! He was 8 years old then.

[@remnantoftheeye5580]

Did I do that?

[@dogeymon83]

That was such a slimy thing for coleco to do: make an adapter that plays Atari carts. Atari had the right to sue

[@jamesp3142]

Why did

[@TweedProductions]

The 2600 was made from off the shelf components.

[@marcellachine5718]

And yet lost.

[@Josh-le6lu]

Damn, Coleco offered to put kids through college yet the ADAM was too terrible.

[@rbrtck]

The Adam was overly rushed to the market and wasn't reliable enough as a result, but to be fair, it was the best of the console-computer conversions. On its own, it was actually fairly comparable to "real" home computers, and might have been competitive in the market, had the engineers been given enough time to fix enough of its problems *before* its release. I'm not saying it was revolutionary or even that great of a bargain, but before the problems surfaced, it had garnered a lot of positive attention and interest. Technologically, it was comparable to the MSX standard computers that were popular in Japan, and of course it was compatible with the ColecoVision library of games (some of which were improved for the more powerful Adam). It never would have seriously threatened the Commodore 64's dominance of the home computer market, but the Adam could have carved a decent niche for itself, as the ColecoVision was doing before the 1983 crash of the console and arcade markets. Computers were immune to the crash (and probably heavily contributed to it!), but the timing was off for Coleco, and the Adam never really had a chance to move the company and their console forward like it could have.

[@anare123456]

Una consola muy superior a las demás consolas en su época

[@jasonwright9405]

70s? Nope 80s yup

[@SeaOfTides]

Did getting low grades so your parents would by you a computer, ever actually work for anybody? Nowadays grades don't matter because they're aren't any jobs anyway, so that would have been a smart move for a kid back then, if that actually worked. Of course, back then that $500 scholarship probably paid for a year of college, but nowadays that won't even buy enough gas to get there.

[@steveflitton8903]

God, these commercials are so cheesy.